What a great movie! Watching and seeing it is believing. I hope this will turn out like it did for LOTR, that the Academy will finally decide to look past and beyond the sci-fi genre and award the two, or perhaps, hopefully, a third to cap it all. (Wonder if ever an AA is awarded to a sci-fi movie?)
The two T-movies really deserve it. I have never, repeat never, heard an audience clapping and cheering at the end of a movie. A football match definitely, but never a movie. It has all the elements that a great movie should have. Here is my list.
- great story (the heartbeat of the movie and in this case, it's about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, when the foes are many and heroes are few)
- great character development, and the movie has a few of them, characters that we could relate to (ordinary folks, and in some cases, not-so ordinary folks, making courageous and self-sacrificial decisions that most of us in our inner beings always aspire to achieve, another sign of God's image in man)
- good human and non-human actors and actresses (ok,I admit, some were less convincing)
- right amount of humour, interspersed in between really tense moments (this brought the house down, literally)
- great graphics/visuals/cinematography (and I mean great, where else would you see a Voltron-like combo-Decepticon climbing up the pyramids of Giza to ..... spoilers ended)
- great soundtracks (Linkin Park of course)
- and last but not least, the great voice of Optimus Prime!
I am sure there are others. Might watch it a second time and hope Michael Bay will produce another next year. This will definitely replace Dark Knight as the candidate for my first Blue-Ray disc. Have fun watching and never give up, just believe!
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